Cloud analytics company Birst has today announced the release of Birst 6 – a platform that unifies the company’s strategy towards creating automated, networked BI in the enterprise. We’ve been following Birst closely over the past couple of years, where the company has been talking about the challenges that businesses face in connecting the dots between traditional analytics tools, desktop visualisation tools and more modern open source technologies, such as Hadoop. Birst argues, correctly in my mind, that enterprises have found themselves in a situation where they are doing analytics in a disjointed, disparate fashion. Products have been bought by teams across the organisation, data silos and lakes have been created, and there isn’t a networked fabric that brings this all together in a coherent way. This not only reduces…